Talking about scalping, one year I got to watch the game from the President's box, because a couple of clients of mine, UT grads, had made substantial gifts to UT. I was a guest of the VP for Development. One of their peculiar rules was that I had to buy a ticket through him, pretty decent seat, at that. Forty yard line, I think. I asked him what to do with it. (I already had gate/elevator credentials.) He told me I was free to sell it for whatever I could get. Now, this was Dubose's last year, IIRC, so they were enjoying themselves. I wasn't. I think the face value was $30 and I was prepared just to eat it. On the way to the stadium, there was a teenager holding up a sign saying he needed one. I walked over and offered him the ticket. He asked how muc and I told him face value. He looked at me, looked at the ticket, and said "You're spoofing me," except that wasn't the verb he used. He went away happy. I really only had one enjoyable moment. There are actually two president's boxes, one orange and the other white. Whichever I was in, the bar and refreshments were in the other. I wandered over and who should be there but the UA president, bow tie Andy Sorensen. He looked at me like he'd seen a ghost. For someone who basically wasn't doing anything wrong, he was the guiltiest-looking SOB I've ever seen. I just said "Fancy meeting you here." His logical comeback would have been "You too," or something like that, but he was so nonplussed he could only stutter. He was about as big a loser as Dubose, in my book...
